For more information and FAQs about how our courses work, please go to our In-Person Courses, Video Courses and Online Courses pages.
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Tutor: Rachel Long
A blank page – do or don't? The first module in our new Pathways Through Poetry series. Jump in and we'll guide you through the journey to poetic success!
£240.00 *
Tutor: Shazea Quraishi
Take poetic action in response to these times of war, displacement and climate emergency.
£240.00 *
Tutor: Natasha Hakimi Zapata
A weekly workshop for developing poets looking to improve their writing through feedback and close reading.
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Tutor: romalyn ante
Dreamscapes, stillness, and self-discovery; join us as we dive into the world of mindfulness and poetic craft.
£125.00 *
Tutor: Fawzia Kane
Traversing from revelry to meditation using cultural masks to discover our own true selves.
£100.00 *
Tutor: Elizabeth Parker
Punk quilting and Petrarch; get romantic this February, as we explore the latest innovations in love poetry.
£125.00 *
Tutor: Cat Woodward
Follow the lunar cycle and make your own meanings out of the moon in poetry.
£100.00 *
Tutor: Giulia Ottavia Frattini
Unearth the deep and enduring treasures buried in the cracks of language and investigate the unspoken in poetry.
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Tutor: Helen Ivory
Revel in the upraised voices of peri and menopausal women and banish the taboo of writing about the life transition.
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Tutor: Isabelle Baafi
Learn to capture a reader’s attention within seconds and leave them wanting more with Forward Prize-winning and T.S. Eliot Prize-nominated Isabelle Baafi!
The Poetry School’s teaching year runs over three ‘terms’ – Autumn, Spring and Summer. Each term we offer around 40-50 courses and workshops that cater to a variety of levels, varying in length and subject matter. The course programme changes every term with more new courses, workshops and tutors, but often includes courses that run over three terms and popular repeats.
We offer both ‘classroom’ teaching (UK) and ‘virtual’ teaching (international). You can visit our In-Person Courses, Video Courses and Online Courses pages for more detailed information about course structures, process and what to expect.
Most of our courses and workshops accommodate writers with a wide range of experience, but some are specifically designed for beginners or more practicised poets.
Here are our definitions:
Our programme is developed around these three teaching levels, although we also offer many courses that are Open to all – courses aimed at all levels, often focusing on a specific theme or inspirational subject matter.
‘Literary work in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by the use of distinctive style and rhythm’ – OED
‘Poetry is a heightened imagistic use of language that does things to the heart and head’ – Grace Nichols
‘A made thing, a verbal construct, an event in language’ – Edward Hirsch
‘Poetry is memorable speech’ – W H Auden
‘Poetry does not explain life. It gives life to feeling and seeing’ – Sarah Stetie
‘Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not’ – Samuel Johnson